Obama Acts Slowly When Americans Call for Action, But Quickly When Castro and Chavez Demand It

During the unrest and youth rebellion in Iran, President Obama was slow to listen to the millions of Americans urging him to make a quick statement in support of a free Iran. We understand that he had reasons for his reluctance including ambitions of increasing diplomacy with the current rulers of the repressive state. Reasonable minds can and have disagreed, but it looked like he was acting in what his team believed was the United States’ best interest.

Some say his immediate and strong statement on Honduras is another example of the President advocating for his country’s best interests. We dissent.

We believe President Obama found the clarity to align himself immediately and issue a strong position statement in Honduras when he could not in Iran because doing so in Honduras meant following Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the growing communist movement in South America. As we’ve written before, President Obama’s White House Counsel Greg Craig has represented the worst of the Latin American communists for years and he is a close and trusted advisor to the President.

The situation in Honduras is unfortuante, but clear. With support from his friend and political ally Huga Chavez, President Mel Zelaya decided to call for a vote of the people reshaping the constitution of Honduras to fit his personal and idealogical ends. The Constitution of Honduras *does* allow for amendment, but it requires a process for amendment involving the Honduran Congress. In declaring that he could rewrite the Constitution without the Congress and outside of the Constitutional procedure, President Zelaya was essentially declaring himself a dictator or supreme leader. The Honduran Military acted to preserve their constitution and democracy by expelling the dictator and installing the appropriate civilian representative to replace him. This coup was not about appointing a military leader or about resisting a lawful election; it was an action taken by a government to defend itself against a communist effort to trash their constitution and create a dictator.

You could argue that President Obama made his quick statement in support of President/Dictator Zelaya because he thinks its best to preserve stability in the region. However, the rise of aggressive anti-american communism is hardly a good outcome for the United States. If it happens as a result of a free, constitutional election, we could understand Obama reluctantly supporting the President — at least publicly. In this situation, we see no reason for President Obama to throw the United States’ support behind the communist capture of South America.

Click on the thumbnail, below, to check out O’Grady’s article for the Wall Street Journal for important background on the Honduras situation:

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